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Peter M.J. Gross

@petermjgross.bsky.social
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I'm an editor. I make games. I have terrible opinions. I live in Central Virginia. These facts are unrelated.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 9h
They put Indigenous People's Day & National Farmer's Day on the same day, good thing you can be boooooooth. Here's just some of the farm & food work NC-based tribes are doing! Corn+beans+squash plot, at the Catawba Nation. They recently pulled a corn variety back from almost-extinction 💪💪💪
Photo of a corn, squash, & beans plot run by the Catawba Nation.
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So do video games make it a multiverse situation? postgoodism.itch.io/christine-taxi
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Christine Taxi by postgoodism, ConManEd, Bitterly Indifferent Studios
Help Christine build a new life as a morally-flexible robotaxi!
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The rituals aren’t always successful; I hope this one ends like the time he nominated Matt Gaetz for attorney general.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 09/10/2026
none of these rubes have ever faced a hostile, political regulatory regime and they’re behaving like the last dodos wandering aimlessly on the beach
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I feel like more people should know about Nice Marines: gshowitt.itch.io/nice-marines
A segment of the rules from Grant Howitt's "Nice Marines":
 
WHAT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?
You have never been able to understand one element of civilian culture, and it fascinates and perplexes you. Choose one element from the list below; roll an additional DIO and pick the highest dice when you interact with it.

Animals | Cuisine | Love | Fashion | Food | Humour | Lying | Art | Grav-cars | Sadness

You automatically succeed at all combat actions. You wear inch-thick powered armour, cany a machine gun so big a normal person cannot lift it, and own a sword with a chainsaw blade that can cut clean through a gral>car. Choose a piece of equipment that you bring everywhere:

Flamethrower | Ancient Godpistol | Atomic Jetpack | Psi-Axe | Laser Shotgun | Grapple Cannon
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If I was going to list all the disappointments of living in the 21st century, I’d note that we’re getting a lot fewer Elvis sightings these days.
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Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 30/09/2026
What do Harvest Moon and It's a Wonderful Life have in common? They both helped shape the small town of Lewthport! 🚢 Eric Rivers (Writer & Narrative Designer) of @saltstonestudios.bsky.social shares the biggest narrative inspirations behind The Hearth & Harbour 📚
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Narrative Design and Inspirations for The Hearth and Harbour
Writer and Narrative Designer Eric Rivers discusses The Hearth and Harbour’s narrative influences and inspirations – from other games, to films, literature and stage plays Any game, any…
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wish I didn’t know just how fierce a burn this was. pmjg.blogspot.com/2011/06/i-re...
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I read all 10 books of the Mission: Earth series
General shenanigans clearinghouse and repository of poorly articulated ideas.
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I was talking about The Good Place with a friend today, and I described Kristen Bell‘s character as “A charming mix of combative and slutty.”
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I hope he doesn’t think he can buy his way out of this, because the last time Bob Kraft tried to pay for a happy ending, it resulted in a criminal investigation.
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is bullshit. I’m tired of seeing this kind of hateful bigotry oppressing those of us with peccable grooming standards.
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In a confrontation precipitated by Macklemore, no less!
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Scott Bessent’s nonsense reminds me of the Jimmy Hoffa quote about being powerful. “If you have to say you is, then you ain’t.”
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Laser pants. www.aiweirdness.com/laser-jeans/
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Laser Jeans
Apparently they use lasers to put the wear marks in jeans now? Amazing.
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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh--wait hold up a second
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It can only good happen.
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Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Lately YouTube has been recommending me a lot of videos of videogame footage with titles like "The Devs Never Expected Anyone to Try THIS!!1!" my friend I guarantee they did. they did expect it. people spend like a trillion hours making a game. the devs did expect that you would do that thing.
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
On the topic of misleading titles, what about Moon Knight? It may not be a game, but I still think it’s weird that nobody in it does any mooning AT ALL.
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Are you familiar with “Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale”?
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It’s the stopped clock that’s right twice a day. There are TONS of sketchy dudes sending pervy, unsolicited messages to women on that platform. Statistically, one will reach someone unable to spot all the red flags involved. The PR spin ignores the harassment and discusses the “wins.”
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Working on a piece for the newsletter, this is a data point - smart people keep shrugging and saying “communities don’t like data centers because of ‘vibes’” etc when it’s really that people are in fact smart enough to know they are bad faith neighbors. It is *entirely rational* not to trust them.
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hear me out: -The best staff members are smart + lazy (von Hammerstein-Equord, 1933), but -People can't assess their own intelligence accurately (Dunning & Kruger, 1999), so -All dedicated employees should strive to be lazy. Anything else might be dangerous!
A matrix attributed to General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord showing that the "Industrious + Stupid" group is dangerous while the "Lazy + Clever" group should be appointed to the highest leadership posts.
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I’m old enough to remember when it was “free gift with purchase“
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 21/08/2026
"International assassin" always implies the existence of national assassins, or possibly local assassins. Every midsized town has a minor assassin working out of a storefront at the mall between the Cinnabon and the UBreakIFix guy
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
what's funny about this is that monks were perfectly delighted with the printing press, the myth that the late medieval church resisted printing is false, you can actually embellish printed books and people did, illuminators and scribes are not the same people, and simon should read more.
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Tessa Duvall @tessaduvall.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🚨 Kentucky has announced the finalists in its "I Voted" sticker contest. 🚨 Per the Secretary of State: Kentuckians can vote for their favorite sticker at the SOS's booth at the State Fair from August 20-30.
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Disco Central Banker @centralbanker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Central banker here. This isn’t funny, interest rates only do this when they’re in extreme distress
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 13/08/2026
Learning that Chuck Schumer's daughter is a lobbyist for Amazon is a good reminder that as annoying as nepo babies becoming artists can be they can always do worse things with their wild and precious lives
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"technically any plane the president is on is Air Force One," the smuggest guy says, ignoring that the president had to flee allied airspace in a vessel other than the presidential sky yacht because of fear that the neighboring country whose leader he assassinated might successfully retaliate.
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Here's the radical truth that nobody is talking about: The proliferation of LLM-generated text is not a problem because of vapid, auto-generated prose, but because people are not bothering to read it, but think it's worth reading anyway.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 07/08/2026
just another white cat appropriating tabby culture
white cat with a full sleeve of tabby cat fur on one leg
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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 07/08/2026
I've made a game! A piece of interactive fiction, to be specific. A sci-fi caper, if you will. You can read about it here, and then play it in your browser (mobile browsers too)! kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2026/08/07/o...
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Out of the drafts and into…
Out of the drafts and into… About a thousand million years ago, I decided to follow up my mildly creepy little C64 text adventure Escape the Dragon Caves with a lighter sci-fi offering, written for…
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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Nintendo had to raise prices because of tariffs, now it gets a refund and customers who bought the higher-priced items last year get nothing
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Mr Market Miscalculates 🇪🇺🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ @mrmarketmis.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Guys, did you all get your tariff refund together with the DOGE dividend?
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Age verification? I’m old enough to remember the Bud Ice penguin singing “Dooby dooby doo…”
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Maybe it was addiction, but maybe you needed two months before you were ready to try and move past things. Healing can take a while!
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Anna Hollinrake 🌤️ @annahollinrake.com · 29/07/2026
Hey all! I'm currently on the lookout for a freelance UI artist with experience in Unreal 5. Stylized art preferred as it's for Crescent County! Lmk if that sounds like YOU or SOMEONE YOU KNOW 🌟 #gamedev #indiedev #gamejobs
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Can we add anybody using the phrase “the good doctor“ to this pile?
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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Now that I'm reading this on something other than my phone, there are like ten pages I could quote-post word for word. It is an absolute Festivus-level airing of grievances. I highly recommend reading pages 71-80 for anyone who feels like they've been taking crazy pills when they think about SCOTUS
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
My understanding is that it’s “money we spend while developing a product, and then the revenue from selling that product can pay our operating costs.”
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I do think it's actually worth taking a minute to try to understand what it even means for the Minions to work for an "evil" boss. One of the contradictions of the series, and of the minions characters in particular, is that they are not *themselves* notably evil --
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
What exactly is in the toolkit? I ask because the last time I thought someone was referring to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in a context like this, it turned out to be a HUGE MISTAKE.
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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
A+ travelogue, would recommend.
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DonutShoes🍩👟 @donutshoes.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Did you know? You can book chiptune artists to perform at your shows! Try booking a chiptune artist today!
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Its a subtle point, but its worth seeing how the difference isnt the medium, but the artificial controls put over how we access it. Its worth owning physical media, but also looking at what prevents the digital media that passes through your devices from being “owned” by you in the same way
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Excellent job counting, Google. This AI-assisted search is really doing great work.
AI-summarized search results confidently asserting that Sauron's one ring plus sixteen additional rings "brought the total number of Great Rings to 20"
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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Do they break out the data between BRIBES and RUBES?
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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Out here in “Your scientists got so could up in whether they COULD that they never stopped to ask whether they SHOULD” territory
Johnsonville “inspired by Dr. Pepper” smoked sausage
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